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From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
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Subject: Re: Dumping data using pg_dump after chrooting to a
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Krishnamurthy Radhakrishnan <kradhak@cisco.com> wrote:
 
> pg_dump works before chrooting to the secondary partition. Can
> you please provide a way to dump the data after chrooting?
 
How about connecting through a TCP connection and piping directly
from pg_dump to psql?
 
Of course, these days you have the option of just using pg_upgrade
against the original or a deep copy of the data directory.
 
-Kevin